Need Help: Cheap, nutritious, and filling ideas for Breakfas

Good first post. The answers will be very useful for folks on a budget. Curious to see what people come up with.

Breakfast- I use egg whites or sometimes a whole egg and I put some Pictsweet seasoning blend(frozen chopped onions, celery, peppers...like $1 and some change) and some cheese. Instant Oatmeal and some fruit.

Lunch- I found some Nature's Own bread for 40 calories a slice and some Oscar Meyer turkey and ham that is 50 calories for 4 slices. Tuna is always good if you like it. Homemade soup, or I use Progresso +a coupon lol.

Snack- Peanut butter and apple slices... Yogurt (Yoplait 4 packs) and you can always find coupons for those and it makes them cheaper than the Walmart brand.

Hope some of that helps!

As far as breakfast goes, oatmeal is my go to food and I don't mean the instant packet stuff either. I measure out a serving. Add splenda and cinnamon, pop in the microwave for 60 seconds and I'm full til lunch!

Oh also almonds or other nuts!!! Its cheaper to buy big and divide your portions into little baggies.... Same with chips, or wheat thins, etc. Laughing Cow cheese. String Cheese.

Do you have an Aldi near you? Being a broke *kitten* college kid, that's normally the only place I shop.
Meal/Snack ideas:
You can put just about anything in a tortilla...I do scrambled eggs, cheese, & broccoli in one, in the mornings.
You can make vegetable soup pretty cheap, with whatever veggies you like.
Can have celery with peanut butter & raisins as a snack
You can get whole wheat pasta at Walmart for $1.08 (I know this because i bought some like 10 minutes ago lol), which ya can make a lot of stuff with
Peanut butter sandwiches are cheap to make (could add bananas to it)
Oatmeal

Check online for ideas, there are tons.

My favorite breakfast is frozen fruit mixed into yogurt with some bran. 200 cal! I keep a large container of yogurt in the fridge at work and a container of all bran in my desk. I only have to remember to take the fruit out the night before otherwise it's like eating flavored ice! It's also a great treat in the summer time if the fruit is still slightly frozen! That and a bran muffin puts me over on fiber for the day.

Here are some of my breakfast options:

Oatmeal-Apple Cinnamon (130 calories made with real apples)(also has flax, and omega 3) (Oats revolution is the brand .

Light Thomas English muffin (100 cals), One egg (70 cals) (I use Natures harmony, 100mg of omega 3, farm fresh, no antibiotics, or hormones) scrambled and cooked like an omelet that you'd put on the english muffin, One slice of prima della colby jack cheese about 30 calories, I also opt for butterball microwave turkey bacon 2 pieces (30 cals). Total meal 230 calories and filling, sometimes I also add an orange which is about 63 cals. so 293 cals total then.

Low calorie cereal, I like Honey bunches of oats ( I get the store brand). 1 serving 120 cals, 1/2 of skim milk 45 cals. Total 165 cals, sometimes I'll add fruit like a banana , ranges about 70-100 cals for a banana.

2 scrambled eggs (140 cals), 2 pieces of turkey bacon (30 cals). 1 piece of toast (Natures white wheat 55 cals a piece). 1 small fuji apple (65 cals). Total for this meal 290 cals.

Some of my Lunch options

Sara Lee Honey ham (deli) 3 oz (120 cals), Bread Natures white wheat (110), Cheese 1 single slice bordens american 2% milk (50 cals), bag of 1 oz sun chips (140 cals). Total meal-420, you can also leave the cheese off, that knocks off 50 cals. Or Not eat the chips, you can sub. Popcorn which I do sometimes. Popcorn Indiana is 150 cals for 2.5 cups. So you could do 1 1/4 cups for 75 cals.

Velveeta cheese cup 2% milk (180 cals), I usually do some form of mixed vegetable by birds eye (steam fresh), usually less than 100 cals per serving...

On a rare occasion I do a lean pocket, like lean ham and cheddar its like 290 cals I think.

Campbels Sirloin burger vegetable soup is less than 300 cals for the whole can. I usually have trouble finishing it all.

As far as breakfast goes, oatmeal is my go to food and I don't mean the instant packet stuff either. I measure out a serving. Add splenda and cinnamon, pop in the microwave for 60 seconds and I'm full til lunch!

I make oatmeal as well, although the quote above does not mention adding water or milk, one or the other or both will be required to cook/soften the oats.
I measure into a screw-top Ziplok container:
- 1/3 Cup of "Large Flake Oats" (120cals) ,
- 30 grams ( 2-3 Tablespoons) of dried fruit mixture that I cut up and mix myself (apricots, dried plums, craisins, blueberries, raisins) (100cals)
- sometimes chopped almonds (1Tblsp) (100 cals)
-cinnamon and splenda (sometimes honey)
-add approx. 1/4 C boiling water or hot milk and let stand or microwave.

I put all dry stuff in container the night before and add the liquid before I leave home for work.
When I arrive at the office I eat the oatmeal. I do have access to a microwave at work if I want to reheat a bit.
The dried fruit and the Oats can be purchased from Bulk stores, or the bulk section of your supermarket.

Baked oatmeal can be a good on the go food and kid friendly. Home made hummus as a snack / filler with veggies. I like chicken and rice porridge sometimes for breakfast. Cottage cheese sweetened with fruit - though good luck, it may be a fail thing with kids on sight or texture alone. you can never tell. I often cook an egg in my oatmeal if it's microwave oatmeal (so it ends up kind of custardy.) Simple veggie / bisquick / egg 'quiche' can be good for breakfast or lunch. Since you're making it yourself, you decide the amount of fat in it / can cut it to size or make it in muffin tins. Egg and hashbrown 'baskets' in muffin tins? Sliced apples and peanut butter.